Soulcare in Healthcare (A Claritas Institute Program)

our current health-care system is suffering from an internal malaise—a disconnect between body and soul. the most visible symptoms of this split are escalating costs and a nation plagued by a rise in chronic illness, obesity, and depression. a less visible symptom is professional burnout, loss of heart, and talented professionals leaving their practices. however, when patients connect with their health-care providers soul-to-soul (a respectful i–thou encounter), instead of role-to-role (an i–it encounter- language that we've adopted from parker palmer), the result is healing. symptoms are reduced and patients become more mindful, skillful, and empowered. the relationship is the medicine, a transcendent field that embraces both the practitioner and the person being served. in the process both participants reclaim the vital quality of wholeness. the soul care in health care training, led by mind-body pioneer joan borysenko and organizational psychologist gordon dveirin is designed to rec